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Decent09:
If one gone, hundreds will come up, be rest assured Tel Aviv will becomes history.

dream on.

Very good. One down more to go. Death to all terrorists of the world.

How much did she gaved him?

*The Blood on Maiduguri’s Streets and the Silence from Windsor Castle*
_By Ayozie Uchechukwu Ronald_

As I write this, the soil of Maiduguri is once again soaked in the blood of innocent Nigerians. Yesterday, March 16, 2026, the silence of the night was shattered by three near-simultaneous suicide bombings. At the gates of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital—a place of healing—and in the bustling heart of Monday Market, at least 23 citizens were blown to pieces. Over 100 others are currently lying in hospital beds, their bodies riddled with shrapnel, their lives forever altered by a terror that this administration promised to "renew hope" against.

*But where is our President? Where is the "Commander-in-Chief"* when his people are being slaughtered in war-like numbers?

_The Tale of Two Worlds: London Luxury vs. Borno Bloodshed_

While Borno mourns, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has jetted off to London. On the very morning the news of the carnage broke, the President departed for a "historic" state visit to the United Kingdom. While the families of the deceased are identifying mangled corpses, Mr. President is preparing for a carriage procession to Windsor Castle to be hosted by King Charles III.

There is no official statement from the Presidency that matches the gravity of this horror. No national broadcast. No immediate visit to the scene. Just the cold, mechanical hum of a private jet taking our leader away from the suffering of those he swore to protect.

*And where is the Vice President?* Kashim Shettima—a man who once governed Borno and should feel this pain in his marrow—is in Awka, Anambra State. He is not there to condole with the grieving; he is there to attend the second-term swearing-in ceremony of Governor Charles Soludo. The optics are staggering: a celebration in the South, a royal banquet in London, and a graveyard in the North-East.

*A Government of Selective Swiftness*
_We must ask ourselves: why is this government only "swift" when it comes to political conquest?_

Let us not forget that when there was a political impasse in Rivers State, President Tinubu was quick to act with an iron fist. He did not wait for a consensus. He invoked a State of Emergency, suspended an elected Governor, and installed a military sole administrator. When it comes to dismantling the democratic mandate of a perceived political foe, the President is a "lion." But when the enemies of the state—the real terrorists—slaughter 23 Nigerians in a single night, the lion becomes a tourist.

This is the height of insensitivity. It shows a government that values power over people, and political control over human life.

*The Insult of the "City Boys"*
To add salt to our collective wound, while the nation bleeds, the President’s son, Seyi Tinubu, traverses the country with a group known as the "City Boys Movement." While our youths in the North-East are being blown up at hospital gates, these "City Boys" are busy holding rallies and "empowerment" tours, deep in the arrogance of dynastic politics.

Is this the Nigeria we were promised? A country where the President’s family lives in a bubble of luxury and political vanity while the average Nigerian cannot even walk to a market or a hospital without the fear of being vaporized?

*No Nigerian is "Common"*
We must state this clearly: No Nigerian is common. The life of a trader in Monday Market is worth exactly the same as the life of any politician in Aso Rock. No Nigerian is "more Nigerian" than the other. When 23 people die in Maiduguri, the flag should fly at half-mast, and the President should be on the ground, not on a red carpet in Windsor.

The APC government has failed. They have failed on security, they have failed on empathy, and they have failed on every promise made to the Nigerian citizen. We are living in a state of undeclared war, where death has become a daily statistic.

*A Call for a New Direction*
A leader who cannot stay with his people in their darkest hour is not worthy of leading them into the light. A government that prioritizes royal banquets over the burial of its citizens has lost its moral right to govern.

President Tinubu and the APC have shown us who they are: a government of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite. They do not deserve a second chance to lead a country they so clearly do not care for.
Nigeria belongs to us—the people—not to a movement, not to a dynasty, and certainly not to "City Boys" who are deaf to the cries of the grieving.


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I' took my time to listen to the tape. Na God safe the guy o. Israel for kpai him like a chicken. That place where the father was praying for him really touched me.

puremaker7:
Werey, sha complete your 8yrs make we no weytin remain

which 8 years? Abeg o, I no wan die. My body is already paining me.

Did you know that Daniel Bwala’s performance in that interview was even worse than what we saw? Some parts were cut from the final edit. For instance, we didn’t get to see this part:
Hasan pushed him on a question, asking ‘why’, ‘why’ ‘why’? Bwala responded with: ‘because Y has a long tail and two branches".

Bwala’s Self-Indicting Post-Interview Alibi Poor Performance

By Farooq Kperogi

I have said far more about Daniel Bwala’s sensational Al Jazeera rhetorical incineration than I am inclined to, and honestly wanted to move on, but his ludicrous, self-indicting post-interview ego defense has drawn me in again.

I will isolate only the most egregious alibi he invoked to explain away his embarrassing lies, contradictions, inconsistencies, and lack of basic decency to admit the truth.

He says he should have been told in advance that his past criticisms of Tinubu would come up in the interview so he could “prepare himself.” That is a remarkable confession.

In journalism, interviews are not take-home exams where guests receive the questions beforehand, rehearse answers and stroll in to recite them like memorized lines in a secondary school debate.

If that were the standard, every interview would sound like a badly rehearsed stage play, or what my friend and former colleague Crispin Oduobuk used to call a “stand-and-deliver” performance.

The entire point of a personality interview is to test what a guest actually knows and believes when confronted with real questions.

What Bwala has accidentally revealed is far more interesting than his ego-defending, self-pitying lamentation. By complaining that he was not forewarned, he has essentially told us that for all his appearances on Nigerian TVs, he always gets the questions ahead of time. In other words, the “analysis” viewers watch is often scripted, pre-packaged theater.

That’s not journalism. That’s PR. As I pointed out in my August 26, 2020, article titled “Fani-Kayode: All Great Journalists Are ‘Rude’” and again in my February 09, 2023, reflection titled “Kwankwaso’s Superhuman Restraint During Arise TV Interview,” our job as journalists is to rupture the composure of politicians, to so rile them up that they trip up and say things that are unscripted and therefore newsworthy.

"Smart politicians know this," I wrote. "Instead of allowing themselves to be immobilized by impotent anger, they respond to high-pressure, 'embarrassing' questions with poise, and disarm adversarial reporters with humility, grace, and gentleness."

That a presidential spokesperson who fancies himself as a towering intellect does not know that real journalists do not send interview questions in advance, and who did not anticipate, much less prepare for, questions about his own past, says a great deal about him.

And the exam analogy writes itself. Imagine a student protesting after failing a test: “The lecturer never told me these were the questions he was going to ask!”

That protest does not expose the lecturer. It exposes the student. Bwala is, in effect, complaining that he failed the exam because he didn’t get the “expo.”

It makes you wonder how he passed his exams in his educational career, particularly since, for a lawyer, he seems to struggle a great deal with English grammar, his tool of the trade.

He apparently has zero clue what subject-verb agreement means in spoken English. He also appears not to have learned even a little about English plurals and uncountable nouns, which would explain why he said, “this is a water” during the interview.

So, despite the post-interview spin, the complaint says what no critic could say better: he walked into the room unprepared, and the questions did what questions are supposed to do.


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Eyaaaaaaaaaaaaa, so shaggy don die be dat? Government should do something about the insecurity in Nigeria o. We are tired of seeing people being killed.

Easy access to the female students. Does the 40% include female lecturers?
#iamapeepingtom

Nigeria is long goned.

Please take a moment to write a quality post with at least 20 characters.
This will make the forum more interesting for everyone

Let them go. 72 virgins await them there

The Nigerian music industry is controlled by Yorubas.

Tinubu wants MC Oluomo in Abuja for a reason well known to everyone.

That means Obi is still a boy.

All is now set. Let's go there

Yinmu! Dey play. Election that we're already writing the results.

TINUBU’S POWER GAME: WHEN A PRESIDENT TREATS A NATION LIKE A PRIVATE COMPANY
Kio Amachree

The political opponents to Tinubu cannot play the gentleman game with this man. He is a Donald Trump in black face and agbada. He is a John Gotti from Lagos Nigeria, a Mafia don, capo de capo.

Tinubu has no respect for people like me. He is the kind of man that has frustrated my career and life in Nigeria for years — a crook who uses his dirty money to squash the colonial-trained Nigerian elite and replace us with thugs and criminals like Wike.

He despises my Eton education and my Ivy League credentials. He believes his street education, his gangster methods, and the billions of dirty money he has accumulated are what Nigeria respects and understands — not my grammar, not my posh British accent, not my fancy Oyinbo ways.

He will use the legal system to bully his way to the front of the queue. He will pay his thugs to beat up anyone who gets in his way. He has made the presidency his own personal business. It is now a Tinubu company. International loans are deposited into his bank accounts. His mindset is fascist, his philosophy narcissistic, and his addiction to power is one hundred percent addictive.

Unfortunately for him, I have seen his type before. In the Second Republic, with military leaders and civilian power bosses who fell into the same trap Tinubu has fallen into — the misguided belief that evil is permanent.

It is not.

It is a temporary high like a sniff of cocaine. Great the first time you sniff it, then more and more cocaine is needed in the attempt to reach the first high again.

Tinubu has no regard for the law, for tradition, or for discipline. He has created a universe with himself as the sole energy source. But history has taught me that such men always fly too close to the sun.

These men listen to no one. They think their god status is real, forgetting how they started, where they came from, and how they maintained their enormous bank balances.

When I heard that Tinubu had given his friend Gilbert Chagoury the second highest award Nigeria can give a civilian, it told me that this man has no regard for honesty. He is what they accuse him of being — a drug baron, a CIA informant, a corrupt former governor, a man with a fake education and a questionable background.

One criminal honouring another criminal without a care in the world what anyone thinks, believing he is now untouchable.

These kinds of men hardened me. These kinds of men made me look at the power game differently. They made me reorganize my arsenal, replace my infantry, cavalry, and missiles far beyond the battlefields of Nigeria and onto the international fields of power.

Because without the Swiss bank accounts, without the luxury mansions in Paris and London, without the ability to move around the world, Tinubu is just another loud-mouth bush politician from God knows where.

Once confined to Nigeria.
Once confined to the depreciating naira.
Once exposed from all quarters.

He is finished.

Lastly, he is no longer a young man. And if Seyi is the future of the Tinubu brand, then I do not need ninety percent of the attack mode I would reserve for the father.

Tinubu is used to one kind of enemy — the easy-to-buy one.

Not the angry intelligentsia determined to destroy everything he represents.

Kio Amachree

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If the rice and supergeti no do you, see fried meat, I dash you.

Boat is sinking. You can only throw one overboard to survive. Who will it be and why?

Yinmu! Dey there dey lie.

The list is incomplete without the prices of olosho in both countries.

This news sweet me die. Awalokan, but they decided to do ojoro and gave it to him. There won't be peace until the writeful person is chosen. Awalokan!

Marry them at your own risk.

Just like our own national assembly

Christlike01:
Ozza room,with who? No be dis one o— e no fit happen lailai!

says who? You fit swear swy na only baba dey drive the car now?

Dickson178:
Any small thing, Dem don put am for news ... This rubbish means wetin to una?

especially the front page of nairaland and seun is just looking.

Why were they clapping for her. It's hi service that will us in this country.

When he shooted them, did they dead?

PRESS STATEMENT By Daniel Bwala

In the last 24 hours, social media has exploded over my interview with Mehdi Hassan, albeit with varied opinions. Let me set the record straight.

When I signed on to the privileged job granted to me by Mr. President, I was well aware of its implications. Selling ice cream, looking fine, and seeking the praises of men were never part of it. Some of the fiercest critics of my interview can not even stand local TV anchors. But the task of promoting and defending the President and his administration is what I do with ease and joy. I am prepared to appear before any interviewer, anywhere in the world, any day and at any time, to defend this government and its policies.

I have never, and will never, subscribe to ducking or dodging interviews on matters that concern promoting and defending the administration I was appointed to serve. It is the least of what is required of me.

Head to Head contacted me requesting an interview, stating that they wanted to challenge our government on security, the economy, and corruption. Nowhere in our almost six months of communication did they mention that they were going to challenge my past. If that had been their plan, ethically and professionally, they were supposed to inform me so I could prepare my response. But that’s okay, ethically, that is on them, not on me.

I refused to swallow the pill of Mehdi’s “opposition research-style journalism,” and even today, if you carefully compare what he read as quotes from organisations and groups, you will see that many were inaccurate and some were outright fake news. But I will leave that for another day.

As for what I said about President Tinubu in the past, I am glad those were things I said when I was in the opposition saddle with such zeal. It is all politics. Half of Donald Trump’s cabinet is made up of people who once spoke against him, and quite a number of people in our own cabinet also spoke against President Tinubu in the past. Those things do not bother him if you care to know.

The majority of the naysayers are members of the opposition and their sympathisers. It does not bother me one bit. Their temporary excitement over the interview has not lasted and will not last, because it does not take away their obvious problem of lack of vision, mission in conducting and managing a political party; yet they seek to manage Nigeria. Clearly they have no path to victory and no alternative policies or program for the Nigerian people. And if they say they do, they can as well go to head to head and be interrogated on that; as the saying in Hausa goes “Ga fili Ga doki”

I conclude by thanking the many Nigerians and non-Nigerians who sent in their commendations over my brave defence of our government in an interview where the anchor would hardly let you answer a question unless it suited his narrative.

I still have admiration and respect for Mehdi Hassan as arguably the best debater on the planet. I look forward to part two of the Head to Head interview, and I am glad that by then questions about my past will no longer be news so that we can focus on our administration’s policies, programs and what we have achieved so far.

Stay tuned.

– D.H Bwala
Special Adviser to President on Media and Policy Communication
(State House)

Saturday March 7, 2026

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